Deuteronomy 14:7

Nevertheless Not raḳwith which qualifications to laws are introduced by D (see on Deuteronomy 10:15; Deuteronomy 12:15 f.) but "ak, Deuteronomy 16:5; Deuteronomy 18:20, cp. Deuteronomy 12:22.

camel, hare, rock-badger] In Leviticus 11:4-6 taken separately and each with a repetition of the formula because it cheweth the cud but parteth not the hoof. The camelchews the cud but its hoof is only partly cloven (see on Deuteronomy 14:6): sacrificed and eaten by Nabateans and ancient Arabs (Wellhausen, Reste Arab. Heid.112, W. R. Smith, Rel. Sem. 201, 263, 320) though forbidden to Christian Arabs because of its use in heathen rites (id.265), the camel is still eaten in Arabia (Burton, Pilgr. to Med. and Mecca, ii. 217, Doughty, ii. 209, 345, Musil, Edom, i. 247, Ethn. Ber.71, 150, 423, 453 f.); taking the place of the ox of the settled Semites (see on Deuteronomy 14:4). The hare, "arnebeth, Ar. "arnob, does not chew the cud and its feet are neither hoofed nor cleft; there are several species in and round Syria (Tr. 8 f., who singles out the lepus syriacus), and the beast is common in Arabia, where it is eaten (Doughty, i. 70, 567, ii. 238); hare's bone, foot and head were used as amulets (W. R. Smith, Rel. Sem.362, G. Jacob, op. cit.20). The rock-badger, shaphan, Ar. wabrand ṭubsun; procavia(hyrax) syriaca(Tristram, 1) does not chew the cud. It seems, however, to the observer to chew the cud: -both the jerboa and the wabr ruminate, say the hunters, because they are often shot with the cud in their mouth" (Doughty, ii. 238). It is eaten by all the nomads (id.i. 127); -about the size of a small rabbit and has a superficial resemblance to that rodent.… The zoological position of the order is obscure, there are 14 species" (Shipley, E.B.-Coney," which see for further information). A.V. and R.V. coney, Old Eng. for rabbit. Driver (Deuteronomy 3 p. xxii) suggests the translation rock-rabbit, a name given to an allied species of the Hyrax (H. Capensis) about the Cape of Good Hope.